Whistleblower complaint: Twitter's ex-head of security Peiter Zatko alleges the company misled the FTC over its security plans, did not protect users, and more
In an explosive whistleblower complaint obtained by The Washington Post, former Twitter security chief Peiter ‘Mudge’ Zatko alleges …
Instagram is internally testing Candid Challenges, a BeReal-like feature that gives users two minutes to take and share a photo at a different time each day
Instagram is testing a new feature called Candid Challenges, which bears a striking resemblance to BeReal, a photo sharing app popular among …
Elon Musk subpoenas former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, ahead of his trial with Twitter set to begin on October 17 in the Delaware Court of Chancery
1/ https://twitter.com/... Nate Anderson / @claritytoast : Things are heating up. Looks like Elon Musk officially subpoenaed his friend Jack Dorsey in an effort to prove he oversaw fraud at Twitter. $...
Sources: Apple plans to begin manufacturing the iPhone 14 in India about two months after its release, shortening the production gap between India and China
Apple Inc. plans to begin manufacturing the iPhone 14 in India about two months after the product's initial release out of China …
Microsoft is putting more ads in Outlook for iOS and Android for users of its free services; ads appear at the top of inbox and look like real emails
Free users can avoid most of them by using Focused Inbox — Microsoft has started putting more ads in Outlook mobile for iOS and Android in recent months.
Source: Elon Musk scheduled a deposition with Peiter Zatko before the complaint became public; Zatko's complaint accuses Twitter of “lying” to Musk about bots
Twitter's former security chief alleges that the company is hiding the ball when it comes to spam and bots
Sony faces a UK class action lawsuit, seeking up to £5B, over claims it breached competition laws by overcharging PlayStation customers, covering 8.9M gamers
Company is being sued over allegations it overcharged millions of customers — Sony PlayStation is being sued …
Binance's CCO says hackers used an “AI hologram” to impersonate him during video calls to scam crypto projects into believing they would be listed on Binance
A set of hackers managed to impersonate Binance chief communications officer (CCO) Patrick Hillmann in a series …
Xiaolang Zhang, a former Apple employee accused of stealing Apple's car project trade secrets, pleads guilty and faces up to 10 years in prison and a $250K fine
- Xiaolang Zhang, a former Apple employee who was accused of stealing computer files with trade secrets about Apple's secretive car division …
Sony says the PlayStation VR2 headset is coming in “early 2023” but does not reveal its pricing
The virtual reality headset will launch next year — Sony's PlayStation VR2 headset is coming in “early 2023,” according to posts the company made on Twitter and Instagram.
Democrats and Republicans in Congress are investigating Twitter whistleblower Peiter Zatko's claims and seeking a meeting for further information
including fines https://www.documentcloud.org/ ... Senator Dick Durbin / @senatordurbin : If these claims are accurate, they may show dangerous data privacy & security risks for Twitter users around t...
Estonia-based Ready Player Me, which helps build cross-world animated avatars, raised a $56M Series B led by a16z, following a $13M Series A in January 2022
Last week, Mark Zuckerberg was roundly mocked for the bad graphics in his preview of a new expansion of Horizon Worlds, Meta's metaverse effort.
An investigation uncovered a now-deleted subreddit where users were sharing, trading, and selling explicit images and private details of women without consent
Women are facing threats and blackmail from a mob of anonymous strangers after their personal details, intimate photos and videos … Tweets: @joetidy , @toluogunlesi , @monikaplaha , @_jessicadavies , ...
Dune Analytics: Nike's NFT sales have generated $185M, followed by Dolce & Gabbana with $25.7M, Tiffany with $12.6M, Gucci with $11.6M, and Adidas with $10.9M
Nicholas Kitonyi / NFTgators :
Intel signs an unusual $30B agreement with Canadian asset manager Brookfield to help fund its factory expansion plans; the companies will split future revenue
Funding arrangement could be first of many such partnerships as U.S. chip giant expands manufacturing, Intel CFO says
Apple expands its Self Service Repair offerings to cover the M1 MacBook Air and M1 MacBook Pros; the repair kit is available to rent for $49
LockBit ransomware's leak sites suffer a DDoS attack after it claimed responsibility for breaching Entrust in June; LockBit blames Entrust for the DDoS attack
Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer :
Twitch lifts its long-standing partner exclusivity requirement, letting partners stream on YouTube, Facebook Live, and other platforms with some conditions
with one caveat Ed Nightingale / Eurogamer.net : Twitch allows Partners to stream on rival platforms Tweets: Makena Kelly / @kellymakena : Twitch is allowing partners to simulcast streams to TikTok. B...
A look at “DentureTok” on TikTok, made up of women with dentures, as they fight the stigma and campaign for better dental care access; #dentures has 1B+ views
Jessica Lucas / Input : Tweets: @markyarm and @jesslucaswrites Tweets: Mark Yarm / @markyarm : “I wanted to fight the stigma around [dentures],” says TikToker Alyssa Segrist (pictured below). “There'...
DigitalOcean plans to acquire web hosting company Cloudways for $350M in cash; around half of Cloudways' clients already use DigitalOcean
Brody Ford / Bloomberg :
Inworld, which helps developers create AI-based virtual characters for video games, raised a $50M Series A led by Section 32 and Intel Capital
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat :
Zoom reports Q2 revenue up 8% YoY to $1.1B, vs. $1.12B est., Enterprise customers up 18% YoY to 204.1K, and Q3 guidance below estimates; stock drops 8%+
Jordan Novet / CNBC :
Celonis, which helps enterprises discover inefficiencies, raised $1B at nearly a $13B valuation, after raising $1B in June 2021 at an $11B valuation
Bloomberg :
Bengaluru-based health care app Mojocare, which offers consultations and a marketplace for products, raised a $20.6M Series A led by B Capital
Manuel Baigorri / Bloomberg :
JD.com beats with Q2 revenue rising 5.4% YoY to ~$39.1B and ~$700M net income, following three consecutive quarters of losses; NYSE-listed shares rise ~5%
Coco Liu / Bloomberg :
Yandex announces a deal to offload its controversial news aggregator and a blog to social network VK in exchange for VK's food and grocery service Delivery Club
Bloomberg :
Hands-on with Pretty Good Phone Privacy, a data service for Android that aims to give users an additional layer of privacy when using mobile phone networks
Joseph Cox / VICE : Tweets: @josephfcox , @josephfcox , @lorenzofb , and @josephfcox Tweets: Joseph Cox / @josephfcox : On the backend, PGPP gets services from Telna, a Canadian company, which in tur...
Sources: Meta learned the FTC opposed its Within acquisition via a tweet, highlighting Lina Khan's more adversarial stance; the FTC never sought sworn testimony
Bloomberg : Tweets: @briancalbrecht , @alexbarinka , @rstephens , and @leah_nylen Tweets: Brian Albrecht / @briancalbrecht : Whether you agree with the challenge or not, this is bad. We may hate Face...
Sources: as Instacart plans an IPO, its Q2 revenue rose 39% YoY to $621M, orders increased 25% YoY to 60M+, and order volume rose 21% YoY to $7.1B
Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal :
A look at video streaming sites thriving on misinformation and hate speech, such as BitChute, with 514M visits in 2021, and Odysee with 292M, per Similarweb
Reuters : Tweets: @reuters , @reuters , and @reuters See also Mediagazer Tweets: @reuters : BitChute co-founder Ray Vahey and Odysee co-founder Jeremy Kauffman are self-styled libertarians who see th...
Dealogic: the IPO market in 2022 is the lowest since 2009; companies have raised $5.1B in IPOs this year so far, compared to $100B+ at the same time last year
Corrie Driebusch / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @ychernova , @jsadinolfi , @saraheneedleman , and @lisaabramowicz1 Tweets: Yuliya Chernova / @ychernova : “I don't think a lot of companies that are p...
eBay plans to acquire online trading card marketplace TCGplayer for up to $295M; TCGplayer, which employs 600+, will operate independently
Intel will bring “chiplet” packaging to its Meteor Lake chips in 2023 and Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake chips slated for 2024, to better compete with Apple silicon
Shopify's new AI commerce stack
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